With the NBA playoffs over, the focus shifts to the offseason with the Detroit front office facing a series of significant decisions that will affect the team’s future. CBA expert Danny Leroux breaks down the major options, opportunities and risks for the Pistons in The Athletic’s 2018 Offseason Preview series.

It has been a remarkably tumultuous nine months for the Pistons in terms of personnel. Last July, Stan Van Gundy effectively turned Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Marcus Morris into Avery Bradley and Langston Galloway, then included Bradley as a piece in the Blake Griffin trade at the deadline. While missing the playoffs amid all that is surely a disappointment and attributable to a variety of factors, what I find striking is Detroit’s lack of flexibility for the next few years.

With Griffin and Andre Drummond under contract for at least two more seasons (Griffin has a player option in 2021-22, Drummond in 2020-21) at about $60 million combined, the...